Ad Reinhardt. Untitled, 1950
By Jordi Teixidor
For the Valencian-born painter Jordi Teixidor, Ad Reinhardt was the most radical of the artists of the New York generation of the 1950s: he renounced the relationship between figure and background, completely abandoned the use of colour, and confronted other artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, whom he accused of linking mysticism and art (something that, paradoxically, he would end up doing himself in his black paintings).
